![Wage-Earning Women [with] Women Workers and Society](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/542/306/1300306542.0.m.jpg)
Wage-Earning Women [with] Women Workers and Society
by MacLean, Dr. Annie M.
New York; Chicago: Macmillan; McClurg, 1916. First editions. Very Good + to NF. Both books in original publisher's cloth bindings with titles to spines and front boards. The former in VG+ condition with some sunning to spine and offsetting to rear board. The latter Near Fine, with the slightest bumping to extremities and early ownership inscription to front... Read More
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
by Maclean, Norman
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1976. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book in a Near Fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the extremities and along the spine fold. Jacket price clipped, but still showing part of the original dollar sign. Overall a pleasing, unread example. Norman Maclean’s 1976 semi-autobiographical... Read More
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Harriet and her Cousin; or, Prejudice Overcome
by [Macrae, Lady Flora Maitland]
Edinburgh: Thomsons Brothers, 1822. First edition. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with gilt to spine. Measuring 140 x 80mm and collating complete including frontis and publisher's catalogue to rear: vii, [1, blank], 199, [1, errata], 8, [1, blank]. A Near Fine copy with some scuffing to boards and joints, and small chip to foot of spine. Contemporary ownership... Read More
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Hours of Gladness
by Maeterlinck, Maurice. Edward J. Detmold (illustrator)
London: George Allen & Co, 1912. First trade edition. Original cream-colored cloth. Front cover lettered in gilt with floral decorations in yellow, brown, and gray after a design by Detmold (signed E.J.D. at lower right), back cover with a similar floral decorations in yellow, brown, and gray, spine stamped and lettered in gilt. White endpapers with small black floral... Read More
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An Address Upon the Co-Education of the Sexes
by Magill, Edward
Philadelphia: Charles A. Dixon and Co, 1873. First edition. Near Fine. Original printed wraps, with stitching holding well. Small stamp of Andover Newton to top corner of front wrapper. Mild offsetting and toning to exterior, with top rear corner bent. 14 pages. Internally complete, clean and unmarked. The present argument for coeducation in the U.S. has become quite... Read More
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The Naked and the Dead
by Mailer, Norman
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1948. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Nearly Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Slight wear to the spine ends; dust jacket price-clipped and toned along the edges. Very slight wear at the spine ends. Mailer’s first novel, a masterful saga of the Second World War. Mailer wrote the... Read More
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The Naked and the Dead (ARC)
by Mailer, Norman
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1948. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Advanced Review Copy in self wrappers. A Very Good copy of this scarce edition of Mailer's first novel. Book appears gently read, with concave spine and gentle rubbing to edges of the wraps. Faint odor and mild soiling to book, but no internal markings or major... Read More
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Pair of diaries documenting ten important years in the life of a young woman
by [Women's Social History] Ruth Marden
Madison, Maine, 1919. Pair of diaries, totaling 752 pages in a single hand, both from Madison, Maine resident and teacher Ruth Marden. Standard Diary and Daily Reminder (1909): First diary comprised of 371 pages in a single hand, with the ownership signature of Ruth Marden to header of title page. In addition to 365 detailed entries for the... Read More
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Pre-Marital Property Agreement and Will
by [Marital Property] [Wills and Land Grants] Poulter, Mary and James Danvers
[Surrey], 1808. Vellum manuscript measuring 520 x 670mm with text to recto only. Original horizontal and vertical foldlines. Some minor toning to recto and verso. £1 impressed duty stamp and seal of King George III adhered to upper left corner with tin. Married in Southwark Christ Church, Surrey on 27 June, 1808, Mary Poulter and James Danvers previously established... Read More
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Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
by Marx, Karl; Frederick Engels (editor); Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (translators)
New York: Appleton and Co, 1889. First American edition. Near Fine. The first US appearance of Marx's groundbreaking work. This edition is a reissue in one volume of the first UK edition, by Swan Sonnenschein in 1887. It uses UK sheets with an Appleton title page. It almost certainly beats the Humboldt edition to the US market. That... Read More
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Aucassin & Nicolette
by Mason, Eugene (translator)
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1910. Fine. Finely bound ca. 1910 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamp-signed on verso of front endpaper). Full scored red calf, covers with double-gilt ruled borders surrounding a blind-stamped geometric design. Front cover lettered in gilt, spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, olive green morocco lettering label, marbled... Read More
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Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South
by Mayo, Rev. A. D.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892. First edition. Very Good +. Listed on the front wrap as Bureau of Education Circular of Information NO. 1, 1892. Original printed wrappers with some minor chipping and paper loss, and with significant loss to crown and foot of spine. Front wrap loose at base but holding. Contemporary handwritten label on spine "Southern... Read More
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Blood Meridian
by McCarthy, Cormac
New York: Random House, 1985. First edition. Fine/Fine. McCarthy's masterwork, frontrunner for best American novel from the 1980s. Octavo. Original red cloth-backed red boards, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in metallic red. With dust jacket. Title page and facing page illustrated with map of New Mexico. A Fine copy in like dust jacket. Bright and fresh overall. ... Read More
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The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, [and] Cities of the Plain
by McCarthy, Cormac
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First editions. Fine/Fine. A Fine set in like dust jackets, pristine and appearing unread. All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain comprise the Border Trilogy, though the novels were written and published over a span of six years. Detailing the rough-riding lifestyle of its cowboy protagonists living... Read More
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Suttree (Inscribed first edition)
by McCarthy, Cormac
New York: Random House, 1979. First edition. Very Good +/Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy in like dust jacket. Inscribed by the author: "For John & Ann | Best wishes | Cormac McCarthy." The recipients were John Egerton and Ann Bleidt. John Egerton (1935-2013) was an author and journalist writing extensively on southern culture and race relations.... Read More
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Linda's Pictures (Inscribed association copy)
by McCartney, Linda
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First American edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. Inscribed by the photographer on the half title: “For Peggy, Quincy and midgets, love & kisses, Linda McCartney, 1982." The recipients were Quincy Jones, his third wife Peggy Lipton and their daughters, Kidada and Rashida. In 1982, Paul McCartney worked with Jones on Michael Jackson’s... Read More
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History of the Indian Tribes of North America (in 2 vols.)
by McKenney, Thomas L.; James Hall; Charles Bird King (illustrator)
Philadelphia: D. Rice & Co, 1872. Later printing. Near Fine. Two large octavo volumes (10 11/16 x 7 5/8 inches; 272 x 194 mm.). [iv], [1]-450; [1]-541, [1, blank] pp. Complete with *ninety-nine hand-colored lithographic plates heightened with gum arabic, as enumerated in the list of illustrations at the beginning of each volume (61 in volume one, and... Read More
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Arte Del Navigare dell'eccel Dottor Pietro Da Medina
by Medina, Pietro da
Venice: Appresso Tomaso Baglioni, 1609. Second edition in Italian. Small quarto (7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 197 x 145 mm.). [xiv], 137, [3, blank] pp. Title-page printed in red and black and with a large woodcut. Full-page woodcut map of Europe, the Atlantic Ocean and the New World on page 33 (identical to the 1554 edition) and numerous... Read More
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The Works (in 36 vols.)
by Meredith, George
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co, 1911. First Thus. [The Memorial edition], limited to 1025 copies, this being copy 527, numbered and initialed (GMM) by Meredith. Thirty-six octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches; 216 x 142 mm.) occupying approximately 44 1/2 inches (113 cm.) of shelf space. Contemporary three-quarter crimson morocco over red cloth boards ruled in gilt... Read More
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The Poetical Works of George Meredith
by [Fine Binding - Root & Son]; George Meredith
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Octavo. (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 197 x 133 mm.). xvi, 623, [1, blank] pp. Inserted frontispiece portrait. Affixed to a front blank are two newspaper clippings dated 1929 and 1931. The verso of the portrait also has two newspaper clippings affixed and is inscribed in blue ink by the literary scholar... Read More
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A Breath from the Veldt
by Millais, John Guille
London: Henry Sotheran, 1895. First edition. First trade edition. Folio (15 1/8 x 11 5/8 in; 384 x 296 mm). x, 236 pp.Bound c. 1949 in half crimson morocco over pale red cloth ruled in gilt. Spine with six raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Marbled endpaperes, top edge gilt, others uncut. Engravings exhibit light... Read More
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Order and Chaos chez Hans Reichel (Inscribed first edition)
by Miller, Henry
Tucson: Loujon Press, 1966. First edition. Fine/Very Good +. One of 26 copies in the "A to Z Leather Inscription Edition" inscribed by Henry Miller to the poet Jack Grapes (this being copy G). The inscribed copies were the most limited in a total edition of 1,524 (which also included 99 signed copies). Beautifully bound in half crimson... Read More
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Sarah Belle Luella Mae (Inscribed first edition)
by Miller, Nolan
Detroit: Lotus Press, 1929. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by the author "For Katherine - May 3, 1929" to upper flyleaf. An attractive, artisically-printed book, almost certainly produced in a small edition (other Lotus Press publications were issued in editions of 135 to 215 copies). Publisher's blindstamped black cloth. Octavo. 56 pp. Decorated with text ornaments in... Read More
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On Liberty
by Mill, John Stuart
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859. First edition. Very Good +. Octavo; collates: 207, [1, colophon]; complete (this copy bound without the 16 pages of publisher's ads found in some copies). A handsome Very Good+ copy in the publisher's original blindstamped purple cloth with orange-coated end papers. Dampstain affecting the fore-edge of the front and rear boards,... Read More
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A Gallery of Children (Signed limited edition)
by Milne, A. A.; Henriette Willebeek Le Mair (illustrator)
London: Stanley Paul & Co, 1925. First edition. Near Fine. Edition Deluxe, number 32 of 500 copies (of which 485 are for sale), numbered and signed by the author. A Near Fine copy. Large quarto (12 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches; 317 x 256 mm.). [2, blank], 105, [1, printer’s imprint] pp. Color pictorial title and twelve color... Read More
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